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1 online resource. |
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The fathers of the church: a new translation ; volume 136
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Fathers of the church ; v. 136.
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Translation of: Quaestiones ad Thalassium. |
| Contents |
I. Maximos the Confessor and the Quaestiones ad Thalassium -- II. Date and literary genre -- III. Thalassios the Libyan -- IV. The responses to Thalassios -- V. The passions as hermeneutical crisis -- VI. Stages of spiritual progress -- VII. Scripture and creation -- VIII. The transfiguration of Christ -- IX. The interpretation of scripture -- X. The scholia -- XI. A note on the text and translation -- On difficulties in Sacred Scripture: the responses to Thalassios. |
| Summary |
Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and Greek philosophy, which is as remarkable for its conceptual sophistication as for its labyrinthine style of composition. On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture, presented here for the first time in a complete English translation (including the 465 scholia), contains Maximos's virtuosic theological interpretations of sixty-five difficult passages from the Old and New Testaments. Because of its great length, along with its linguistic and conceptual difficulty, the work as a whole has been largely neglected. Yet alongside the Ambigua to John, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios deserves to be ranked as the Confessor's greatest work and one of the most important patristic treatises on the interpretation of Scripture, combining the interconnected traditions of monastic devotion to the Bible, the biblical exegesis of Origen, the sophisticated symbolic theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and the rich spiritual anthropology of Greek Christian asceticism inspired by the Cappadocian Fathers. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English, translated from the original Greek; introduction and notes in English. |
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Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662. Quaestiones ad Thalassium.
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Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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Bible. |
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Bible. |
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Quaestiones ad Thalassium (Maximus, Confessor, Saint) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works.
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Constas, Maximos, 1961- translator.
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Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662.
Quaestiones ad Thalassium. English (Constas)
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Responses to Thalassios |
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St. Maximos the Confessor, On difficulties in Sacred Scripture |
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Print version: 0813230314 9780813230313 (OCoLC)1020032265 |
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9780813230320 (electronic book) |
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0813230322 (electronic book) |
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0813230314 |
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9780813230313 |
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